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> In short, text embeddings send every piece of text to a vector (a list) of numbers. What does "sent to" mean? Is that baby-talk for "mapped to"?
by denton-scratch 4y ago
> In short, text embeddings send every piece of text to a vector (a list) of numbers.
What does "sent to" mean? Is that baby-talk for "mapped to"?
- passion__desire 4y agoI sometimes wish why don't mathematical equations come with simple visual examples to help students build mental models (an example here [0]). It is difficult to parse meaning behind equations if written in terse language. [0] Tai-Danae Bradley: "Entropy as an Operad Derivation" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cAEfQQcELA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cAEfQQcELA
- jstx1 4y agoIt's poorly written but yes, an embedding is a representation of text as a list of numbers. [text] --> [ML model] --> [list of numbers]